dodder


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Synonyms for dodder

a leafless annual parasitic vine of the genus Cuscuta having whitish or yellow filamentous stems

walk unsteadily

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The dodder builds a canopy on the host plant and casts thousands of tendrils to form a dense spectacle before it strangles it.GERMINATIONAccording to scientists, the weed spreads mainly through contaminated crop seed, although vegetative spread is also possible.
And as they prepare to fly south for winter, they may overindulge in an attempt to store up fat for the journey, Dodder said.
Keywords: Alfalfa; Alfalfa dodder; Imazethaphyr; Imazamox; Cutting height; Plant protection; Crop science; Weed science
Depending on the dodder species, victims include asparagus, melons, sugar beets, petunias, garlic, chrysanthemums and oak trees.
Two plants that take a different approach are the dodders and dwarf mistletoe.
Using field dodder (Cuscuta campestris) as a live bridge between plants, this study investigated the movement of nutrients between tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) parasitized by dodder.
Army troops also shifted flood affectees from Usta Mohammad to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibbi and Dodder through 40 military trucks in last 24 hours.
Estrofil supplements contain rehmannia, Chinese dodder, psoralea, Chinese yam, Asiatic dogwood, ligustrum, tree peony, Asian water plantain and poria.
campion, potato vine, pokeweed, lopseed, the dodder,
Entries cover diseases of subterranean and aerial parts caused by fungi and oomycetes (such as Fusarium diseases, leaf blight, downy mildew, rust and smut), of bulbs caused by fungi (black or blue mold, mushy rot and smudge), and those caused by bacteria and yeast (sour skin, center rot, yeast soft rot), nematodes (needle and sting nematodes), viruses and phytoplasmas(garlic mosaic, iris yellow spot), and parasitic flowering plants (dodder).
Dodder, grown over the hedge, has a bright orange stem indicating the presence of carotenoid.
Some RNA molecules siphoned from the host plant remain stable in dodder, traveling several centimeters within the parasite, researchers report in an upcoming New Phytologist.
The lightly weighted Dodder Walk, who was beaten half a length by Cousteau, looks the one to follow home the selection.
THEY didn't exactly dodder onto Court Three supported by Zimmer frames, but in the strange world of elite tennis, a second week Grand Slam match between two players with a combined age over 71 was the closest thing you were going to get.
Mark Mescher, a scientist from Penn State University in Pennsylvania, found that one type of weed, called a dodder, can sense these odors.